Danez Smith

@Danez_Smif

Author of books from & // Co-host of // managed by (They/Them/That Bitch)

somewhere over the rainbow
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Joined April 2009
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    May 3

    Sorry if the porn I like ends up on your timeline but I don’t have time to make a burner account

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  2. 35 seconds ago

    Fam. What our kids have to think about going someplace where are should be learning and nurtured. America is a trash country. The people in power ain’t gone fix it. We really should start a whole new something else.

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    If this video doesn’t stop you in your tracks... what will? Wow. “I had my hand around a metal baseball bat... if I was going to go down, I was going to go down fighting.” He’s 12.
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  3. Retweeted
    23 minutes ago

    I wrote an essay for about my work in prisons over the years, the importance of poetry as a means to rehabilitate, and the bigger moral questions at play.

    And yet some of the most compelling discussions I’ve ever had have been with prisoners. Equipped with a comprehensive grasp of British criminal law, their experiences are multivalent and complex. —Anthony Anaxagorou
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  4. 4 minutes ago

    I hope they still talk about me on Facebook. Ain’t going back to check.

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  5. Retweeted
    7 minutes ago

    One Word: Bitch by (and read the poem my bitch also in ):

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    7 minutes ago

    If you thought you only like 's tweet about cauliflower, I got news for you!

    “This doesn’t feel like an act of reclaiming language, because when was this word mine? I ran from it, drowned in it, but later, by grace, was knighted by it. Is that reclamation?” writes .
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    13 minutes ago

    you’re damn right i’m going to watch detective pikachu tonight

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    16 minutes ago

    “I’ve made gardens out of my prisons.” ⁦⁩ Love it! One Word: Bitch

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    21 minutes ago

    MPLS💙💙💙💙life our own

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    Minneapolis based multidisciplinary performing artist  serves up the haunting ‘Sugar Mama’ ❣️ Full show:
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  10. 18 minutes ago

    GET INTO DUA SALAH IF YOU WHAT THAT GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!

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    Minneapolis based multidisciplinary performing artist  serves up the haunting ‘Sugar Mama’ ❣️ Full show:
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  11. Retweeted
    May 8

    2005: Study STEM. The Humanities are worthless. 2010: Study STEM. The Humanities are worthless. 2015: Study STEM. The Humanities are worthless. 2019: OUR DEMOCRACY IS IN CRISIS FOR SOME REASON.

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  12. 24 minutes ago

    The mood of this album is “Sex these niggas, maybe even love them, but when it’s time to kick them out? Kick them out.” A mood for summer and truly all times.

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    43 minutes ago

    From the master of words ... so good. "When I am bitched by the homies, there is no threat on my life. There is no car following me as I hightail it home, bitch flung out the window, faggot close behind"

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    13 hours ago

    The scariest part about living in a society that has capitalized on diversity and inclusion is that Y’all got the language DOWN PAT but have no idea what to do when a whole BLACK person is in ya face.

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    1 hour ago

    The writers of Georgia's "Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act" Renee S Unterman (404) 463-1368 Jodi Lott (404) 651-7737 Ginny Ehrhart (404) 656-0152 Darlene K. Taylor (404) 656-7857 Ed Setzler (404 )656-7857 Josh Bonner (404) 656-0254 Micah Gravley (404) 463-8143

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    1 hour ago

    Warwick Public Schools turned down $4K in donations that would alleviate lunch debt. Why? Because they'd rather punish kids and their caretakers for not being able to afford a hot lunch. I have words for WPS. Do you? Call: 401-734-3100. Write:

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    1 hour ago

    People living in poverty are always being told that they need to make better decisions, but we have a system in place—in both the public & private sector—that punishes ppl in poverty every single day, a system that makes an intentional choice to make their lives more difficult.

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    2 hours ago

    There are colleges closing their dining halls during breaks so low-income students have to find food pantries to eat. There are elementary school children who can’t afford hot lunches being shamed in front of their peers w/ cold sandwiches. All of it is a profound moral failure.

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    2 hours ago

    I definitely had my lunch replaced with a cold cheese sandwich a few times in school. They literally took the tray back. Eventually, I just didn't eat when I couldn't pay because of the embarrassment. I'd look for change and hope I had enough for a cookie from the vending machine

    I was on free/reduced lunch and if that wasn’t embarrassing enough (no one knew who was on it, just the shame of being like “oh we are indeed poor”) I cant imagine being handed a sandwich when it chicken finger day. This country is evil. In the smallest and most grand ways.
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  20. Retweeted
    2 hours ago

    UMMMM....EXCUSE ME FRANNY CHOI!

    , and
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    2 hours ago

    Things that are truly pro-life: - abolishing the death penalty - vastly improved prenatal care - universal health care - vaccinations - better gun laws Things that are deeply hateful & not at all pro-life: - this whole fucking travesty of a misogynistic Georgia abortion law

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